Sin piedad

[irmamar]

Quiero decir, más o menos:

Pero las revueltas se aplastaron sin piedad.

But the revolts were merciless suppressed.

Is merciless appropriate here? (and all the sentence, of course) :thinking:

[poli]

Mercilessly works, but so does repressed without pity, and remorselessly.

[JPablo]

Also pitilessly, and ruthlessly... even relentlessly...

[Perikles]

Also pitilessly, and ruthlessly... even relentlessly... The most usual one for a revolt would be ruthlessly. Whichever adverb is used, you might guess that it ends in -ly (it does usually :D)

This, by the way, means with a complete lack of ruth, (meaning compassion), another obsolete English word. :)

[irmamar]

Sorry, I forgot that -ly ending. :o

OK, thanks everybody. :)

Is ruth an obsolete word, but ruthlessly is used?

[poli]

Ruth is a woman's name but ruthless means without remorse. I don't know why.

Uncouth means socially unacceptable, or strange. Couth is not a word in English. Sometimes English is illogical.

[Perikles]

Ruth is a woman's name but ruthless means without remorse. I don't know why.. Read my post above :)

Uncouth means socially unacceptable, or strange. Couth is not a word in English. Sometimes English is illogical.Couth is a word in my dictionary. There are quite a few derivative words in English where the original word has fallen out of use, but which are still listed in the OED. I can't think of many off the top of my head, but for example

feckless
listless
ruthless
uncouth
dauntless

[poli]

Thanks for the info Perikles. Feck was a word in English? I sounds like something you'd hear east of France.

[Perikles]

Feck was a word in English? Sure is, or was. It is aphetic for effeck, a variant of effect, efficacy, value, vigour, energy. Hence feckful and feckless. :)

[poli]

:muybien:
And that's a feck!!:lol:

[JPablo]

Fectually :wicked: speaking... yes! :D

[pjt33]

Read my post above :)

Couth is a word in my dictionary. There are quite a few derivative words in English where the original word has fallen out of use, but which are still listed in the OED. I can't think of many off the top of my head, but for example

feckless
listless
ruthless
uncouth
dauntless
Is daunt really unused? I'm pretty sure that it's still used in the past tense, at least.

[Perikles]

Is daunt really unused? I'm pretty sure that it's still used in the past tense, at least.Yes - he was daunted by the task - sounds normal to me. I was scraping the barrel looking for examples. :thinking:

[poli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc

This is an example of how without pity can be used in English. I trust it won't be very daunting to understand.